Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 479 545
Rank change year-on-year -71 +66 +110
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 31 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.078% 0.012% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.50% 0.064% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 1 4
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £500 £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% -10.87%
75th Percentile £697 £625 £522
90th Percentile £746 - £527
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% -10.87%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,249 4,686 6,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 19.05% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,325 3,288 4,430
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £657 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 95 132
10th Percentile £16.89 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.88 £23.88 £20.93
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £54.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -49 19 £556 - 37
South West - 5 £725 - 7
South East -53 3 £625 - 28
East of England - 2 £500 - 16
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 6
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.45%) SAP ERP
3 1 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Power Platform
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) Snowflake
4 5 (16.13%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) dbt
6 3 (9.68%) AWS
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (9.68%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.23%) Dataform
8 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
8 1 (3.23%) Google Ads
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (51.61%) Power BI
2 8 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (22.58%) BigQuery
3 7 (22.58%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (19.35%) Looker
4 6 (19.35%) Metadata
5 5 (16.13%) Star Schema
6 4 (12.90%) Delta Lake
7 3 (9.68%) Data Vault
7 3 (9.68%) Tableau
8 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (6.45%) Power Query
8 2 (6.45%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.23%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) ER Studio
1 2 (6.45%) ERwin
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Marketing
4 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Local Government
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Data Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Data Modeller
3 4 (12.90%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Data Manager
4 3 (9.68%) SAP Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Integration Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (6.45%) Integration Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.45%) SAP Data Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) JSON-LD
3 1 (3.23%) MDX
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Analytics
1 25 (80.65%) Data Modelling
2 24 (77.42%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (38.71%) Data Engineering
4 10 (32.26%) Data Governance
4 10 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (29.03%) AI
6 6 (19.35%) Data Integration
6 6 (19.35%) Dimensional Modelling
6 6 (19.35%) ETL
6 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
6 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.13%) Analytical Modelling
7 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.13%) Data Architecture
7 5 (16.13%) Data Security
8 4 (12.90%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (12.90%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (12.90%) LookML
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (41.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.23%) NIST
4 1 (3.23%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Databricks
3 5 (16.13%) SAP
4 3 (9.68%) Ariba
4 3 (9.68%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Concur
5 1 (3.23%) Informatica
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Sparx